--- title: Team Gate's Halloween Watchlist description: To help you prep your movie night playlist, we asked the Gate's team all about their favourite spooky flicks… image: https://www.thegatefilms.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202022-10-24%20at%2016.31.14.png --- [![GATE-LOGO-Bold-White-website2](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logos,%20Icons%20etc/GATE-LOGO-Bold-White-website2.png?width=1052&height=364&name=GATE-LOGO-Bold-White-website2.png "GATE-LOGO-Bold-White-website2")](http://thegatefilms.com) # JOURNAL The leaves are falling, the air's getting crisp, and Halloween's on the horizon... which means we’re in the mood to cosy up on the couch and switch on a scary film! To help you prep your movie night playlist, we asked the Gate's team all about their favourite spooky flicks… Halloween (1978) ![HALLOWEEN3](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/HALLOWEEN3.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=HALLOWEEN3.jpg)![HALLOWEEN2](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/HALLOWEEN2.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=HALLOWEEN2.jpg)   **Lauren - Finance Manager: **The original Halloween movie ![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/xDmRZSduh5gDXloHMn6PqB88BPqNF2-y5ci41Iza6OdM9cXv5fU1wRnwXrikDnDXDNaY1ZnaKxLFK4AehHLqivxzW5-418n80ncLlhqzWPiAahTxQd8O1UAwUXn-zuwklkWWTGbrm2I6uFcH8JgHyJbWQxP8SSUL4YxNm_iD9D54_GS0FZhnAoLxdw)  **Nathan - Junior Production Manager: **Mine is Halloween. You can't have spooky season without a film named after its namesake after all! This is the first horror film I ever saw and it scared the pants off me! It's a legitimate classic, and paved the way for the modern slashers that followed. This film is, for me, the one that all other horror films are judged against.     **Hocus Pocus (1993)** **![HOCUSPOCUS](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/HOCUSPOCUS.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=HOCUSPOCUS.jpg)![HOCUSPOCUS1](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/HOCUSPOCUS1.jpeg?width=300&height=300&name=HOCUSPOCUS1.jpeg)**   Libby** - Editor: **Hocus Pocus! Rhiannon** - Head of Production: **I've never been a fan of horror films - I get so scared while watching them that I've been known to wear a hoodie back to front and just sit with the hood up over my face for most of the film. So my idea of a good Halloween film in Hocus Pocus - I haven't watched the sequel yet, so that's going to be my Halloween watch! **Charlie - Head of Commercial & Marketing: **Got to be Hocus Pocus! I've not watched the second one yet, so that can be my weekend watch… **Monster House (2006)** **![maxresdefault](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/maxresdefault.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=maxresdefault.jpg)![MV5BNDMzMTg0ODIzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjA3MjMyMDI@._V1_](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/MV5BNDMzMTg0ODIzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjA3MjMyMDI@._V1_.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=MV5BNDMzMTg0ODIzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjA3MjMyMDI@._V1_.jpg)**   **Leah - Junior Editor: **Monster House is up there for me! **Robbie - Production Assistant: **My favourite spooky season film is and always will be Monster House - I love the whole feel of it and the look, and it always takes me back to being a kid and gives me those nostalgic chills only a film like Monster House could.     **Jennifer's Body (2009)** **![JENNIFERS BODY 2](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/JENNIFERS%20BODY%202.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=JENNIFERS%20BODY%202.jpg)![JENNIDERS BODY](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/JENNIDERS%20BODY.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=JENNIDERS%20BODY.jpg)**   **Megan - Junior Editor: **Jennifer’s Body! **Hannah - Content Creator: **Jennifer’s Body is a halloween must-watch for me - a high school horror-comedy that's become a cult classic!     **Scream (1996)** **![scream-ghostface](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/scream-ghostface.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=scream-ghostface.jpg)![SCREAM2](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/SCREAM2.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=SCREAM2.jpg)**   **Mike - Head of Post Production: **Scream. 26 years old and still influencing films to this day!  **Rhiannon** **- Head of Production: **I'm a 90's kid, and this 1996 thriller used to scare us silly at sleepovers and parties.    **''The Haunting' Series (2018-present)** **![BLY MANOR](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/BLY%20MANOR.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=BLY%20MANOR.jpg)![HOHH_106_Unit_01017R](https://www.thegatefilms.com/hs-fs/hubfs/HOHH_106_Unit_01017R.jpg?width=300&height=300&name=HOHH_106_Unit_01017R.jpg)**   **Dan - Finance Assistant: **I'm not massive on horror stuff, but I enjoyed the Haunting of Hill House series and its sequel! **Hannah - Content Creator: **I recently watched The Haunting of Bly Manor and loved it - the perfect balance of great storytelling and spookiness, with a few jump scares thrown in for good measure.   Think we could bring your idea to the screen? 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